What do you do when you’ve tried all of the conventional and holistic strategies but yet your health issues haven’t completely been resolved? Sometimes deep inner work is required, especially if you’re struggling with Adrenal Fatigue and burnout. But if you’re someone who just can’t slow down, what’s the likelihood of you taking the time to explore this inner work?

Quarantine life has given me the time to do this inner work that quite frankly, I may have never done otherwise, and some of that inner work has been done with the help of my dear friend and returning guest, Sadie Adams. Sadie joined me in Episode 117 where we talked about nurturing natural beauty through calm presence & authentic self-expression.

In this episode, Sadie returns to the show sharing insights and wisdom on how to reclaim holistic wisdom. Sadie draws from her vast education, wisdom, and her many gifts to help people self-heal with:

• Repatterning

• Embodiment

• Integrating the body, mind, and spirit

Using modalities like breathwork, meditation, and movement, she helps people come back into their bodies to reclaim their presence, choices, and freedom.

You’ll hear how she’s helping me:

• Repattern and release a “need to / have to” mindset which in turn helps me with relaxation, tapping into my parasympathetic system to ultimately help me sleep better

• Relieve aches and pains in my body using breathwork and active movement 

• Address long unresolved pain from past running injuries that I’ve battled for over a decade

Her work is unlike anything I’ve experienced before, and if you’re someone who’s made the diet and lifestyle changes but your issues haven’t fully resolved, then I urge you to consider exploring the deep kind of interwork that Sadie offers to help you along your healing journey.

I believe that a significant part of being healthy is feeling at-ease, free of tension, and living in alignment with who are. Human Design is a powerful tool that can help us reconnect with our true selves.

Joining me to introduce the concept of Human Design is Victoria Jane.

Victoria is a Human Design Reader and Coach. Her mission is to guide growth-oriented folks to use Human Design to live vibrantly - with less hustle and more flow.

After a decade in Silicon Valley achieving everything she thought she was “supposed to” - a coveted career, great salary, and all the free snacks, she was forced to face the harsh reality that she was also exhausted, burnt out, and in danger of doing irreparable damage to her health.

As she searched for how to heal not just her body, but also her spirit, she discovered Human Design. Learning her unique design changed her life. It helped her reconnect back into living in alignment with her energy and intuition, giving her permission to let go of the “shoulds” and start living for herself.

In this episode you’ll hear us discuss:

• What is Human Design

• The 5 Energy Types of Human Design

• How Human Design can enhance your work, relationships, and virtually every aspect of your life

I also share how learning about my Human Design profile as a Projector has shifted my mindset and how I show up in the world.

If you’ve suddenly found yourself working from home and it’s been a tougher transition than expected, this episode is for you.

Returning to the show is my friend, colleague, and former manager, Terri Quinn. Terri last joined me in Episode 121: Understanding Your Priorities & Establishing Boundaries in the Workplace, which was recorded weeks before we were quarantined.

In this episode, we expand on our conversation of priorities and boundaries. Drawing on her past 15 years of experience, Terri shares her best practices for being a remote worker, as well as being a remote people manager.

You’ll hear us discuss:

• How to maintain balance when working with teams across global time zones

• The importance of over communication for virtual teams

• How to establish teamwork and unity when managing virtual teams

• The impact that a manager has on a direct report’s health and well-being

• And so much more

In this episode, I’m joined by Veronica Grant. Veronica is a Love + Life Coach, host of the popular Love Life Connection podcast, creator of the Love Action Tribe, and her work has been featured in O the Oprah Magazine, Bustle, Your Tango, and countless of other podcasts.

She helps successful women who feel like they have it all except love, find it.

You’ll hear us discuss love, safety, belonging, and how she uses inner child work to help women:

• Learn how to love themselves

• Learn how to let go of control

• Learn how to raise their self-worth, especially when it comes to abundance and money mindset

Over the past five years that I’ve been a health coach, I’ve spent a lot of time educating others on what exactly is a health coach, what is our scope of work, making sure that I’m always staying within that lane and practice within my scope.

Joining me in this episode is Reed Davis, a Holistic Health Practitioner and Certified Nutritional Therapist, is an expert in functional lab testing and holistic lifestyle medicine. He’s also the founder of FDN, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition®.

Reed served as the Health Director and Case Manager at a Wellness Center in So. California for over 10 years and now teaches the FDN Course with over 2,500 trainees and graduates in 50 countries. He is known as one of the most successful and experienced clinicians in the world today, having provided functional lab assessments to over 10,000 clients. He’s also a Clinical Advisor for BioHealth Laboratories and lives in the US, teaching the FDN Certification Course and helping his graduates build robust private practices.

You’ll hear us discuss:

• What is a health coach, what’s the scope of work for a health coach and what isn’t

• How unlicensed practitioners like health coaches can use lab testing to identify opportunities for healing

• What is lifestyle medicine 

• How health coaches are the bridge between patients and physicians

And a whole lot more. If you’ve ever been curious about what exactly a health coach does and how one can help you, this is the episode for you!

At the time of recording, I’m on Day 43 of sheltering-in-place solo, and I think by now we can all attest to how important social connections are to our health and wellness. For some of us, its even more important than a healthy diet, exercising or even sleep!

The only thing keeping me company is my puppy girl, Coco Pop! I am so grateful to have her with me because this experience would have been so lonely without her and I know many of you feel the same way about your pets as well.

Joining me today is Samantha Vaccaro. She’s a public health professional but she’s also known as Poppy the Doodle’s mom. We’re both crazy dog mom’s who have Instagram accounts for our doodles, Coco Pop and Poppy, and that’s how we connected.

In this episode you’ll hear us chat about:

• How we’re each sheltering in place solo and how our puppy girls are helping us through it

• How having a canine companion can teach us, humans, how to have structure, routines, and boundaries, which are pretty vital to our health

• How our pups help us maintain social connections, especially as adults when its so harder to meet people and make new friendships

In this solo episode, I’m sharing what life has been like for the first 36 days of sheltering in place - solo.

I share what’s changed and what hasn’t when it comes to my work, my workouts, meditation, my mindset and new introspections, and of course, food - and wanting all the comfort food!

I also share what I’ve been up to daily, new things I’ve tried, and three new curated recipe collections that I created for you (that you can find in the show notes for this episode!):

• 22 Healthy Recipes that Support Your Immune System

• 14 Healthy Pantry Staple Recipes

• 12 Healthy and Affordable Recipes

Studies have shown that clutter is a major source of stress. So how can you alleviate it? Get rid of the clutter! Perhaps you’ve already started the process while sheltering-in-place, but if you haven’t now might be a great time to get started!

Joining me in this episode is Carly Adams of the Tidy Revival. Carly is a Professional Organizer based in Sacramento, CA. She helps her clients get organized in their homes & businesses by working alongside them, or virtually through personalized action plans. Whether that’s helping clients declutter, create a Pinterest-perfect pantry, or helping busy parents re-examine the flow of their kitchen or utility closet - Carly is a self-proclaimed “organizational nerd” that loves to geek out to her clients’ benefit.

You’ll hear us discuss:

• The Tidy Revival story

• Her top tips of how to start decluttering when it feels so overwhelming

• What to do when emotions take over

• 7 tips for decluttering any space

I started decluttering my home back at the beginning of the year and with each space that I cleared, it felt like a weight lifted off my shoulders, leaving me with a lightness I haven’t felt in a long time.

I truly believe that decluttering has helped make sheltering-in-place for a prolonged period of time feel comfortable because my home is now a space that I enjoy being in.

Joining me in this episode is returning guest and friend of the show, Jenny Castaneda. Jenny is the author of One-Pot Paleo and Easy Keto Meal Prep (hear all about it in Episode 098), and the blogger at Cook and Savor.

Jenny is also a woman in tech, working in the IT industry for the past 20 years. Last year she began having unexplained aches, pains, and other physical ailments. After seeing a number of doctors and practitioners, she discovered that it was stress and anxiety, largely related to her work.

She’s openly shared this experience on her Instagram account, taking her tens of thousands of followers along this journey with her.

You’ll hear us discuss:

• How her physical, mental and emotional symptoms manifested

• What she tried to her manage these symptoms, what worked, and what didn’t

• The modalities and daily practices that help her manage these symptoms

Stress, anxiety and mental health aren’t topics that people feel comfortable sharing so openly, but Jenny also shares how talking about her experiences have helped her find a community, finding support and feeling less alone as she navigates through this journey.